Langston University

Langston University

      public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Langston, Oklahoma, U.S. It is Oklahoma's only historically black institution of higher learning and has land-grant (land-grant college) status. It includes schools of Arts and Sciences, Business, Education and Behavioral Sciences, Agricultural and Applied Sciences, and Nursing and Health Professions. Graduate programs lead to a Master of Education degree or a Master of Science in rehabilitation counseling. The Airway Science program trains aviation personnel, including pilots, in cooperation with the Federal Aviation Administration and Oklahoma State University. The university maintains its Urban Centers in Tulsa and Oklahoma City. Total enrollment is approximately 4,000.

      Langston University was established by Oklahoma's territorial legislature in 1897 as the Colored Agricultural and Normal (teacher-training) University. It was coeducational from the outset. African American settlers raised money to buy land for the school, which opened in a Presbyterian church in 1898. It was renamed Langston University (for African American educator and public official John Mercer Langston (Langston, John Mercer)) in 1941. The E (Kika) de la Garza Institute for Goat Research is located there, and the university also conducts extension and research programs on topics such as grasslands resources.

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